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Setting up zotero

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Please install locally, see the “Official Tarball” section at https://www.zotero.org/support/installation.

While this says “Ubuntu”, the instructions should also work for Debian. As you're installing in your own account, please replace the “/opt/zotero” path e.g. with “~/.opt/zotero”.